Spinoza’s idea that ‘the right of the individual is co-extensive with its determinate power’ has influenced important strains of contemporary political thought including Deleuze and Foucault, the Althusser School with Negri and Balibar, and socialist theology after Feuerbach.

What might it mean to view aesthetic modernism, political modernity, cultural nationalism as well as crosscultural cosmopolitanism from the perspective not of Paris, London or Vienna, but from the very edges of the European cultural system, in a region such as the "Russian" Caucasus? Most accounts of global modernism assume the centrality of the European metropolis, whose influence irradiates outwards, or assume a “centripetal” account of modernism, as a cultural universe of “peripheral” artists who consolidate a cosmopolitan centre. Can these accounts be modified?

Over the past decades, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) has become more and more popular in the English-speaking world, both as a mode of therapy and an area of study. Following this growth in interest, there is a great demand for English translations of traditional Chinese medical texts, especially Chinese medical classics, which still form the basis for the practice and studies of TCM in modern times.

In this paper, Ian Tyrrell explores global interest in Roosevelt’s ideas on conservation through the North American Conservation Conference in Washington (1908-9) and a non-starting World Conservation Congress to be held at The Hague. This interest had roots in the transformation of the material world in European colonies, the independent states of the Americas and the British self-governing ‘settler’ colonies such as Australia.